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Originally Posted by Guest
i think those who care about the abysmal standards "paraded" on our tv shows today should cancel their cable subscriptions en masse and begin just streaming the shows which they feel are wholesome into their homes....the cable companies would get the message that there are millions of us who don't appreciate these degrading programs...i just had my major cable stations greatly reduced and i am finding that i don't miss them at all. what i really want i can see on the computer.
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And were you similarly upset when Bill Cosby got casted in I spy? Or when you had to read Native Son. While the arts are partially to entertain, a more important function of art and literature is to inform. And to hold a mirror up so the dominant culture can see its warts. This isn't a new idea. Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens skewered the WASP culture in England without mercy. If it is your turn to be skewered perhaps you can see it as an honor.